“In 1951, Highfields Ward had 35 children... But when the Segal Report came out, which meant that all children had a right to a proper education and to go to school, all our children were transferred to Chelmsley [Hospital]. We had teachers, but we hadn’t got the proper school structure.”

“John could read and write well, and he used to love to buy the newspaper. He was quite good at those sorts of things, so he must have had a reasonable schooling. The school was actually in Middlefield, they didn’t go anywhere else. But he never learned any cooking skills or domestic skills while he was in Middlefield, and he never learned them afterwards either.”